AI safety & security Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist
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10 hours ago
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Job Summary
Some careers shine brighter than others.
If youre looking for a career that will help you stand out join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top or simply take you in an exciting new direction HSBC offers opportunities support and rewards that will take you further.
HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper and ultimately helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director Software Engineering Specialist
Key Responsibilities:
Lead design implementation and scaling of enterprise AI safety & security guardrail services (LLM agent ecosystems). Combine deep AI safety engineering with high-performance Python backend (FastAPI/Django) container/Kubernetes operations and crossfunctional stakeholder alignment (Cybersecurity Model Risk Management Privacy Compliance). Drive vendor collaboration and internal architecture strategy for resilient auditable low-latency guardrail enforcement.
- Own technical architecture for multi-layer guardrails: request pre-processing model mediation post-output validation agent step auditing.
- Design/extend services for: jailbreak & prompt/indirect injection detection retrieval poisoning defense PII detection/redaction/masking/tokenization toxicity/hate/harassment/self-harm/extremism filtering data loss prevention (secrets source provenance outbound scanning) sensitive credential scanning hallucination/factuality/citation enforcement misinformation (medical/financial) regulatory compliance filters copyright/IP/brand safety policy orchestration (allow/block/redact/escalate/human review) agent session safety (tool invocation constraints multi-step trace auditing) metrics & experimentation APIs.
- Architect Python microservices (FastAPI/Django async I/O streaming) with versioned policies feature flags canary and shadow deployments.
- Build evaluation framework: automated red-teaming suites adversarial scenario generation precision/recall/F1 dashboards safety regression gates latency/cost profiling drift (content behavior model) detection.
- Integrate ML/NLP components (Presidio spaCy Hugging Face vector similarity custom classifiers rule ML ensembles entropy and checksum validators).
- Productionize RAG safety: document provenance scoring source trust tiers citation completeness leakage prevention.
- Implement full observability: structured audit logs OpenTelemetry tracing Prometheus metrics (guardrail hit ratios decision distributions latency percentiles) incident classification feeds.
- Harden services: authN/Z (OIDC/OAuth2 service principals) rate limiting circuit breakers sandboxing secure config/secrets runtime isolation network policies API contract governance.
- Lead Docker/Kubernetes strategy: multi-stage builds image minimization SBOM Helm/Kustomize HPA/autoscaling policies PodSecurity resource tuning rollback playbooks.
- Coordinate requirements with Cybersecurity Model Risk Management Privacy Compliance Legaltranslate policies into executable rules and evaluators.
- Run stakeholder UAT cycles: test planning evidence collection false-positive adjudication iterative tuning.
- Manage vendor engagements: technical due diligence integration interfaces performance/SLA validation joint solution design and escalation paths.
- Mentor engineering teams; establish coding standards review protocols architecture decision records incident runbooks.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science/Engineering
- 12 years software engineering (majority in Python) with 5 years focused on AI/ML or content safety/security.
- Proven delivery of large-scale guardrail or trust/safety platforms for LLMs or high-risk content systems.
- Deep FastAPI/Django async patterns streaming moderation middleware pipelines.
- Strong ML/NLP integration experience: pattern ML hybrid detectors evaluator services vector stores.
- Kubernetes production operations (autoscaling resilience security hardening) and CI/CD (policy gates security scanning artifact signing).
- Advanced observability and performance tuning (profilers tracing queue/backpressure management caching strategies).
- Risk & compliance alignment (MRM validation workflows audit evidence model governance).
- Vendor technical management (RFP criteria integration architectures SLA/perf oversight).
- Candidate with less relevant experience or skills may be offered a lower Global Career Band than stated above.
Youll achieve more when you join HSBC.
Issued by HSBC Software Development India.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Go
- Lean
- Management Experience
- React
- Node.js
- Operations Management
- Project Management
- Research & Development
- Software Development
- Team Management
- GraphQL
- Leadership Experience
About Company
HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. It was the 7th largest bank in the world by 2018, and the largest in Europe, with total assets of US$2.558 trillion.
